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How Joseph Paradiso’s sensing innovations bridge the arts, medicine, and ecology

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Joseph Paradiso thinks that the most engaging research questions usually span disciplines. Paradiso was trained as a physicist and completed his PhD in experimental high-energy physics at MIT in 1981. His father was a photographer and filmmaker working at MIT, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, and the MITRE Corporation, so he grew up in a house where artists, scientists, […]

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America was winning the race to find Martian life. Then China jumped in.

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To most people, rocks are just rocks. To geologists, they are much, much more: crystal-filled time capsules with the power to reveal the state of the planet at the very moment they were forged.  For decades, NASA had been on a time capsule hunt like none other—one across Mars. Its rovers have journeyed around a

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We’re putting more stuff into space than ever. Here’s what’s up there.

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Earth’s a medium-size rock with some water on top, enveloped by gases that keep everything that lives here alive. Just at the edge of that envelope begins a thin but dense layer of human-built, high-tech stuff. People started putting gear up there in 1957, and now it’s a real habit. Telescopes look up and out

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Bezos’s Blue Origin announces plans to deploy thousands of satellites in 2027

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Deployment will serve data centers, governments and businesses, jumping into market dominated by SpaceXJeff Bezos’s space company Blue Origin on Wednesday announced a plan to deploy 5,408 satellites in space for a communications network that will serve data centers, governments and businesses, jumping into a satellite constellation market dominated by Elon Musk’s SpaceX.Deployment of satellites

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The astronaut training tourists to fly in the world’s first commercial space station

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For decades, space stations have been largely staffed by professional astronauts and operated by a handful of nations. But that’s about to change in the coming years, as companies including Axiom Space and Sierra Space launch commercial space stations that will host tourists and provide research facilities for nations and other firms.  The first of

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TakeMe2Space Lands $5 Mn Funding to Build India’s Data Centre in Space

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Hyderabad-based space tech startup TakeMe2Space has raised $5 million in a seed funding round led by Chiratae Ventures to build India’s first orbital data centre infrastructure.  The round also saw participation from Unicorn India Ventures, Artha Venture Fund, and Seafund. The company will use the funding to expand its satellite constellation, scale in-orbit AI computing

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Crunchbase Predicts: 15 Companies That Could Go Public In 2026 As The IPO Market Gains Momentum

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Editor’s note: This article is part of our 2026 forecast coverage. See our IPO market outlook here, our startup M&A forecast here, and our venture investment outlook here. After a prolonged slowdown, the IPO market is showing clearer signs of life. As our 2026 IPO outlook forecast details, improving public-market conditions, stabilizing interest rates and

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MIT in the media: 2025 in review

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“At MIT, innovation ranges from awe-inspiring technology to down-to-Earth creativity,” noted Chronicle, during a campus visit this year for an episode of the program. In 2025, MIT researchers made headlines across print publications, podcasts, and video platforms for key scientific advances, from breakthroughs in quantum and artificial intelligence to new efforts aimed at improving pediatric health

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IN-SPACe Launches Antariksh Prayogshala to Set Up Space Labs in Academic Institutions

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The Indian National Space Promotion and Authorisation Centre (IN-SPACe) has issued a request for proposal (RFP) to establish Antariksh Prayogshala or Space Labs at select academic institutions across India. The move aims to strengthen the space technology ecosystem by providing hands-on training to students and supporting industry–academia collaboration. Under the initiative, IN-SPACe will select up

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DOE selects MIT to establish a Center for the Exascale Simulation of Coupled High-Enthalpy Fluid–Solid Interactions

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The U.S. Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration (DOE/NNSA) recently announced that it has selected MIT to establish a new research center dedicated to advancing the predictive simulation of extreme environments, such as those encountered in hypersonic flight and atmospheric re-entry. The center will be part of the fourth phase of NNSA’s Predictive Science Academic Alliance

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